What Makes a Good Blog?

cmharris6002 · #41 06/14/11, 10:05 AM

It took me a long time to 'get' facebook too. I have a farm page,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Provid...m/259725353141
I post most of my blog updates there so I get a lot of reads from FB. Also, I'm finding that many others are 'sharing' links to my blog on FB so that helps. I 'liked' your blog but I don't see it at the bottom of your posts anymore? Send me a link to 'like' your farm on FB! Also do you have a "like us on facebook' option on your site aside from liking the blog post. I get 'likes' from my web traffic.

cmharris6002 · #42 06/14/11, 02:21 PM

Marissa I found you farm and liked it

Now where did you get that pretty 'Sand Holler Farm on Facebook' link???

madness · #43 06/14/11, 04:27 PM

??? Um...are you speaking greek?

I'm using "wordbooker" - a plugin for wordpress. Plugins are equivalent to gadgets on blogger. One of the options was for having a "like" link on the page. I didn't change any settings - it just grabbed my profile pic and did that.

I'm not sure about the "like" on the post and the "like" on the whole page. I just don't get the settings on my plugin yet. I'll fiddle around with it some more. I haven't been able to get the "like" to show below posts when viewing the whole blog (instead of an individual post). That's probably what you saw. I hope it's still there on the single post page (it is for me). I need to add the sharing stuff. I didn't really know what that was...I guess I still don't but if people use it, it couldn't hurt!

And I "liked" your farm too!

I noticed that you have a lot more comments on the posts to facebook. I really think comments help retain readership. The plugin I'm using can "push" or "pull" comments to and from facebook. See if the google gadget you are using can pull the comments from there and put them on your blog (and vice versa).